Welcome

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) offer enormous opportunity for patients and providers to work together to achieve enhanced quality of care, reduced costs and improved health outcomes. As a market-based solution, ACOs rely on groups of physicians, hospitals, and other providers voluntarily collaborating to achieve these important goals. As of January 2018, there are 561 Medicare ACOs serving more than 10.5 million beneficiaries with hundreds more commercial and Medicaid ACOs serving millions of additional patients. The accountable care model has a long history of bipartisan support, starting with the Physician Group Practice Demonstration Program passed under President George W. Bush’s administration in 2000 and further expanded under President Obama’s administration. ACOs are proving to be one of the most promising solutions to bend the cost curve and provide high-quality patient care and are a premier payment model in the shift to value-based care.

ACOs from around the country came together to form NAACOS with the following mission:

Foster growth of ACO models of care;

Participate with federal agencies in development and implementation of public policy;

Provide industry-wide uniformity on quality and performance measures;

Educate members in clinical and operational best practices;

Collectively engage the vendor community, and

Educate the public about the value of accountable care.

The Benefits of Membership

NAACOS was formed by ACOs.NAACOS is governed by ACOs.NAACOS’ complete agenda is ACOs.Join our membership!

As a member of NAACOS, ACOs have the opportunity to contribute to and shape policy agenda. NAACOS is THE voice of ACOs. As a member of NAACOS, ACOs have the opportunity to contribute to and shape policy agenda. NAACOS is THE voice of ACOs to CMS, the White House and on Capitol Hill. Members also benefit from operational resources NAACOS provides for starting and maintaining successful ACOs. Join Today!

NAACOS submits comments in response to HHS RFI on competition in the healthcare marketplace

DecemberCMS releases interim final rule establishing extreme and uncontrollable circumstances policies for the Shared Savings Program that will apply to ACOs subject to extreme and uncontrollable events such as Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and the California wildfires, effective for performance year 2017